CVE-2026-72003

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: fix heap overflow on a short auth frame

brcmf_notify_auth_frame_rx() takes the frame length from the firmware event and copies the frame body with the management header offset subtracted:

u32 mgmt_frame_len = e->datalen - sizeof(struct brcmf_rx_mgmt_data);
...
memcpy(&mgmt_frame->u, frame,
       mgmt_frame_len - offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u));

The only length check is e->datalen >= sizeof(*rxframe), so mgmt_frame_len can be anything from 0 up. offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u) is 24. When mgmt_frame_len is below that, the subtraction wraps as an unsigned value to a huge length. The memcpy then runs far past the kzallocd buffer. A malicious or malfunctioning AP can make the frame short during the external SAE auth exchange, so this is a remotely triggered heap overflow.

Reject frames shorter than the management header offset before the copy.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/185bb156c427d0f865d344a6d0eaa02c6d05cc57
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/240c8d2c717b3f8153e7e877b22a82518d78dbdc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55b26abb1fa1ec406b3ad11b43c49c7624257565